{"id":1734,"date":"2014-02-21T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2014-02-21T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:19:41","slug":"audio-perspectives-jooksing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/02\/21\/audio-perspectives-jooksing\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio: Perspectives: Jooksing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/02\/LarryLee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1735\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/02\/LarryLee-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"LarryLee\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Story by Larry Lee<\/p>\n<p>Since I was a child my elders would call me, an American- born Chinese, &#8220;jooksing,&#8221; meaning empty bamboo. All form, no substance. My father&#8217;s friends would ask me in Cantonese, &#8220;Hey Jooksing! Why don&#8217;t you learn to speak Chinese?&#8221; In contrast, white people would ask me where I learned to speak English so well. How crazy-making is that?<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, on vacation with my family, a store clerk asked where I learned to I speak English so well. The same day at a Chinese restaurant the waiter got my order wrong even though I ordered in Cantonese. &#8220;Brainless jooksing,&#8221; he muttered under his breath. At that moment it hit me: I was culturally homeless, not Chinese enough, not white enough. The betwixt and between dilemma of my life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/a\/perspectives\/R201402170735\">Listen to the story here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Larry Lee Since I was a child my elders would call me, an American- born Chinese, &#8220;jooksing,&#8221; meaning empty bamboo. All form, no substance. My father&#8217;s friends would ask me in Cantonese, &#8220;Hey Jooksing! Why don&#8217;t you learn to speak Chinese?&#8221; In contrast, white people would ask me where I learned to speak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/02\/21\/audio-perspectives-jooksing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audio: Perspectives: Jooksing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}